Havas Boldogasszony-templom
This spot commemorates a Marian pilgrimage that began with one man’s vow. Around 1694, the local chimney sweep Péter Pál Francin, who owned a vineyard nearby, built a small chapel to give thanks for surviving a plague epidemic. He dedicated it to the Virgin Mary and placed inside a copy of a “bleeding Madonna” image from Re, Piedmont, which made the chapel known locally as the Vérkápolna, or “Blood Chapel.” That first chapel was destroyed in a fire in 1723, though the image survived—an important reason the devotion endured. As the Krisztinaváros neighborhood expanded, work began on a larger church in 1795, with the foundation stone laid on 13 September 1795. The present late Baroque structure was completed around 1797, with Kristóf Hikisch credited for the design. The tower’s tent-shaped roof was replaced in 1883, and repairs and alterations in the 1850s were guided by József Hild. …
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